We have been given exclusive pricing figures by database website PetrolPrices.com which reveal the average price, the cheapest price and the most expensive price of fuel in Belfast.

Across the 30 filling stations in the area, the average price per litre for unleaded petrol on 17 February was 101.4 pence - down by 6.4 per cent from the equivalent figure for January 2015.

The cheapest of these 30 petrol stations is Asda where the price of a litre of unleaded petrol was 99.7 pence. This is 4.2 pence cheaper than the most expensive petrol station, the name of which was not revealed.

If your fuel tank held 70 litres of petrol you would save £2.94 by filling up at the cheapest petrol station compared to the most expensive.

Petrol in Belfast was found to be 0.5 pence per litre less expensive than the national average which stood at 101.9 pence per litre on 17 February.

Due to the current price of oil petrol prices at the start of 2016 are significantly cheaper than they were at the start of 2015 with the average litre of unleaded petrol costing 5.2 per cent less this year compared to last.

The cheapest petrol station in the UK is Gulf Letterston in Pembrokeshire, Wales where the cost of a litre of unleaded petrol stands at 96.7 pence.

This is a whopping 68.2 pence higher than the most expensive petrol station in the UK which is located in London but was not named in the data from PetrolPrices.com.

Belfast's cheapest petrol station is more than four pence cheaper PER LITRE than the most expensive (Image: Nick Ansell/PA Wire)